Taking On The Billionaire (Redhawk Reunion #1) - Robin Covington Page 0,47

face, his cheekbones, his eyelids, his lips, and then ran her fingers back up to lightly caress the dark shadows underneath his eyes. Adam reached up, grabbed her hand and pressed a kiss onto the palm. The sweetness of the gesture, combined with the fullness of his body deep inside her made her breath catch, her heart actually skip a couple of beats.

“I need you, Tess. I want you so much.” His gaze caught her own in a stare of unflinching unapologetic need and desire. “I’ve wanted you since the beginning.”

“Adam.”

“I want you, baby. Come on, you know I can make it good for you.”

Adam pulled her down again and kissed her, his tongue thrusting inside with a brutal, possessive hunger that overcame all of her senses. This was possession, ownership, laying claim. The point of no return. But she claimed him back, so glad to know that she wasn’t alone in this. They needed to know that they weren’t alone in this; they had each other.

Their bodies moved together, beginning a slow rise and fall, an easy rhythm that would get them both there eventually. No rush. Nowhere to be except here with each other.

She sat up, bracing herself on each side of his shoulders, eyes locked on each other as they gave and took from each other. Tess was so wet, her body gripping him on each stroke. The loss was acute every time he pulled out and built the hunger again with every thrust back in.

I want you.

I need you.

I love you.

Their bodies said everything that neither of them was willing to say tonight. It was enough that they were honest with each other about what this was, what it had become. It would be impossible for them to go backward. Adam knew it. She knew it. But they’d jumped off that cliff together and would figure it out later. It might be something. It might be nothing. It might be forever. But none of that would be settled tonight.

Her orgasm was on her before she realized it. Sudden and powerful, it wrenched a long, deep moan from Tess that she shouted into the open air, hearing its faint echo as it bounced along the ravine below. Adam groaned beneath her, his fingers grasping her hips as he thrust upward, once and twice and then three times. He came then, deep inside her as she collapsed against him.

Their bodies were slick against each other, sticky with their efforts, boneless and heavy as they sank deeper into the cushions of the lounger. Tess couldn’t move, didn’t want to move as she came down from her high, happy to be where she was and with the man who made her feel safe and wanted. Adam clung to her, large arms wrapped around her body, the aftershocks of their pleasure causing him to shiver against her.

Tess shifted a little, moving her head so that she could look at him. He met her eyes, his sleepy but satisfied.

“Are you cold? Do you want to go inside?”

She shook her head. “Let’s stay here a while. Under the stars.” And then she remembered what he’d said to her that night at the Lick Observatory. He’d been talking about his lost family but for her this sky would hover over only two people: Mia and the man in her arms. “I just want to lie under the same stars that shine down on the people I love.”

Fourteen

She found him.

She yelled in triumph, so glad to be in her home office and not the spaces at Redhawk/Ling. Her shout would have had the security guards running to see what the hell was going on.

Tess fumbled with the keyboard, her fingers trembling with excitement as she pressed the keys to print the information displayed on her screen. She didn’t need to print it, everything she’d been searching for was right there on the screen but she was so panicked that it would all disappear that she needed to get it in her hands. On paper. Not just pixels on a screen.

She picked up the phone, hitting speed dial for a number she knew by heart anyway. The line rang and rang, the ringtone shrill in her ear, but there was no answer and the system eventually clicked over to Adam’s voicemail. She could have pressed the code to skip his message but she loved hearing his voice, a little awkward but very, very sexy in its directness.

This is Adam Redhawk, CEO of Redhawk/Ling. Leave a